Sbarro (automobile)

Sbarro is a small Swiss high-performance replica and sports car company founded by Franco Sbarro in 1971. Its first car was a replica of the Lola T70 with a 5.4-litre Chevrolet V8, and it went on to build small-series replicas of the BMW 328, Ford GT40, Bugatti Royale and Mercedes-Benz 540K, of which about 135 BMW 328 replicas made it by far the most common. Most designs stayed one-offs. Notable models include the mid-engine Tiger, the Stash, the wedge-shaped Challenge of the mid 1980s, which may have been the first car sold with a reversing camera, and the Super Twelve with an engine made from two Kawasaki motorcycle engines. Sbarro also made a version of the Stash with Pierre Cardin and dozens of concept cars, such as the 2011 Evoluzione, and it runs the Sbarro Espera school of car design and mechanics.